On Point with Tom Ashbrook The Future Of Internet Freedom December 5, 2012 http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/12/05/internet-freedom
Big powers want to chop up the global internet and put nations in charge. Russia. China. We're looking at the push to rein in the web. The Internet was born free. A novel network that spanned the globe before governments entirely understood what was going on. But they know now. More than forty nations now filter and censor the web. Some have just plain shut it down - think Syria last week. At a big UN meeting this week in Dubai, there is a fresh push to give national governments more control over the global web. Maybe through the U.N. China, Russia, Iran appear to like the idea. The control. The U.S. and big American companies -- Google, Facebook -- do not. This hour, On Point: alarm bells over global Internet freedom. -Tom Ashbrook Guests Brian Murphy, Dubai bureau chief for the Associated Press. Tom Gjelten, covers a wide variety of global security and economic issues for National Public Radio. Ronald Deibert, Director of Citizen Lab and a professor at the University of Toronto. http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/12/05/internet-freedom _______________________________________________ Please be sure to include a URL to the article. Reply to the sender with a "Thank you" if you like this post. _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
